Friday, April 29, 2011 2:05:13 AM
New SearchBar with AutoSuggest
Many will love it, some will hate it just because it's different. It's an improvement, I promise, so give it a fair shake.
It's a somewhat radical change because we've split the search in half. Get a Quote on the left and Search iHub on the right.
One of the coolest innovations in the last few years has been AutoSuggest. Most of the major sites where you're searching for anything have it. It generally saves you a few keystrokes and quite often can lead to really interesting discoveries.
Looking for a quote for Microsoft? Type in just MS and you'll see MSFT in the list. Click it or arrow down.
Looking for a quote on Microsoft but don't have a clue what the ticker is? No problem, just type in Microsoft (or even just the first few letters) and up it pops.
If nothing else, your hands fighting against carpal tunnel will be happy with this.
The results are based on dollar trading volume, so it'll do a ticker/name search, show you a ticker match first, then sort the rest by dollar trading volume. It's very slick.
So, why two boxes? We're essentially drawing a line in the sand between market data (quotes, level 2, charts, etc) and iHub (message boards). If you want anything related to a quote or company, use the box on the left. If you want anything related to message boards, use the box on the right.
I'd like for us to get to using AutoSuggest within the iHub search at some point, but we'll see what shakes there.
While it may initially seem like there's more crud on the screen, you'll notice that we've turned three items -- a single search box and two giant ugly buttons -- into two groovy search boxes with very clear purposes.
Kudos to MEATLOAF on a beautiful UI implementation and to Warren on the backend search technology.
Many will love it, some will hate it just because it's different. It's an improvement, I promise, so give it a fair shake.
It's a somewhat radical change because we've split the search in half. Get a Quote on the left and Search iHub on the right.
One of the coolest innovations in the last few years has been AutoSuggest. Most of the major sites where you're searching for anything have it. It generally saves you a few keystrokes and quite often can lead to really interesting discoveries.
Looking for a quote for Microsoft? Type in just MS and you'll see MSFT in the list. Click it or arrow down.
Looking for a quote on Microsoft but don't have a clue what the ticker is? No problem, just type in Microsoft (or even just the first few letters) and up it pops.
If nothing else, your hands fighting against carpal tunnel will be happy with this.
The results are based on dollar trading volume, so it'll do a ticker/name search, show you a ticker match first, then sort the rest by dollar trading volume. It's very slick.
So, why two boxes? We're essentially drawing a line in the sand between market data (quotes, level 2, charts, etc) and iHub (message boards). If you want anything related to a quote or company, use the box on the left. If you want anything related to message boards, use the box on the right.
I'd like for us to get to using AutoSuggest within the iHub search at some point, but we'll see what shakes there.
While it may initially seem like there's more crud on the screen, you'll notice that we've turned three items -- a single search box and two giant ugly buttons -- into two groovy search boxes with very clear purposes.
Kudos to MEATLOAF on a beautiful UI implementation and to Warren on the backend search technology.
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